About Penn Press
Founded in 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press is one of the oldest scholarly imprints in North America. Penn Press publishes rigorous and thought-provoking work in the humanities and social sciences designed to advance knowledge, dialogue, and understanding.
Our Acquisitions Editors
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief
[email protected]
Areas of acquisition: Cultural studies, intellectual and political history of the Americas, Atlantic World and postcolonial studies
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor
[email protected]
Areas of acquisition: Atlantic history, American history (colonial through the present), history of the African Diaspora and transnational history, urban studies
Selected series: The Early Modern Americas; Early American Studies; America in the Nineteenth Century; American Business, Politics, and Society; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Intellectual History of the Modern Age; The City in the Twenty-First Century
Jerome Singerman, Senior Editor
[email protected]
Areas of acquisition: Medieval and Early Modern European history, Jewish history, literary criticism and cultural studies
Selected Series: RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
Jenny Tan, Associate Editor
[email protected]
Areas of acquisition: Ethnography, anthropology, political studies